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318 biodað mannum ðæt hie hiwien, & ða mettas þe God self gesceop to etonne geleaffullum monnum, ðæm þe ongietað soðfæstnesse, & Gode ðanciað mid godum weorcum his gifa. Gehieren ða oferetolan hwæt sanctus Paulus cwæð, he cwæð ðæt hit wære god ðæt mon foreode flæsc & win for bisene his broðrum. Gehieren ða fæstendan hwæt he eft cwæð, he cwæð ðæt ge moston drincan gewealden wines for eowres magan medtrymnesse. Forðæm he ðæt cwæð ðæt he wolde ðæt ða oferetolan geleornodon ðæt hie to ungemetlice ne wilnoden flæscmetta, & eft ða fæstendan ne forsawen ða etendam, forðæmþe hie ðære Godes gife brucað þe ða oðre forberað.

XLIV. Đætte on oðre wisan sint to manianne ða þe hiora agnu ðing mildheortlice sellað, & on oðre ða þe ðonne giet wilniað oðerra monna gereafian.

On oðre wisan sint to manianne ða þe ðonne hiera god mildheortlice sellað, on oðre wisan ða þe ðonne git flitað æfter oðerra monna, & hie reafiað. To manianne sint ða þe hiora mildheortlice sellað ðætte hie ne aðinden on hiora mode to ðon ðæt hie hie ahebben ofer ða þe hie hiora sellað, ne hie selfe ðy betran ne talien þe ða ofre, ðeah þe oðre be him libben. Ac ða eorðlican hlafordas sint to ðæm gesette ðætte hie ða endebyrdnesse & ða ðenunga hiora hieredam gebrytnige, & hie gerecce, & ðæt folc is to ðæm gesett ðæt hie scylen be hiora rædum libban. Đæm hlafordum is beboden ðæt hie him don ðæt

marriage, and the meats which God himself made to be eaten by believers who understand the truth, and thank God for his gifts with good works.” Let the gluttonous hear what 8t. Paul said; he said that it were good for a man to abstain from meat and wine, as an example to his brothers. Let the abstinent also hear what he said again; he said that "ye may drink wine moderately for the weakness of your stomachs." He said so, because he wished the greedy to learn not to desire flesh-meats immoderately, and, again, the abstinent not to despise the eaters, because they avail themselves of the gifts of God from which the others abstain. -